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WHEN GRIEF IS COMPLICATED

DESCRIPTION: The 2017 program in HFA’s award-winning Living with Grief® series. While most people are able to cope with loss, up to 10 to 20 percent of bereaved persons have more complicated reactions that may impair and impede functioning for a prolonged period of time. This program is designed to assist counselors and others working with the bereaved understand, assess and assist individuals who may be experiencing such complicated forms of bereavement. The presentation begins with an overview of contemporary work on complicated grief, then explores interventive strategies to support grievers experiencing complicated forms of grief. _____________________________________________________________________________________ PROGRAM DETAILS: This educational program combines presentations by experts with video, discussion, and additional complimentary learning materials. RELEASE DATE: April 27, 2017 TIME: 12:30pm ET ON DEMAND: to registered organizations through April 26, 2018 LENGTH: 2 hours, plus 30 minute post-program discussion at individual viewing locations CES: 2.5 hours of credit will be available for a wide variety of professional boards TARGET AUDIENCE: Health care clinicians, social service clinicians and others working in the hospice,

palliative care, counseling, hospital, nursing home, funeral home or faith community environments

_____________________________________________________________________________________ TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS To view this online program, you will need a computer and screen, reliable internet access, and speakers. If you are showing to a large group, you will need a way to project on a large screen and a sound amplification system. Please test your system ahead of time to ensure you have the capabilities to view and hear the program, as HFA does not provide refunds on registration. Please also be sure to test on the SAME equipment you will use on the day of the program viewing.

TEST LINK for Audio and Video: http://media01.commpartners.com/CP/browser_test/iframe.html

Technical Questions? Please contact CommPartners at 1-800-274-9390 or via e-mail at: hospice@commpartners.com.

_____________________________________________________________________________________ PROGRAM FEES/MATERIALS: Registration is available via streaming video online (webcast) or on DVD. DVD purchasers will have access to DVD and the online streaming video program. Registration includes one book per site location/registration. Organizational registration only. Registration fees are as follows:

- $150 – DVD + Webcast Registration - $100 – Webcast Only Registration

HOW TO REGISTER: Register directly online, on HFA’s website: www.hospicefoundation.org

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MATERIALS AREA: Program materials are accessible to all registered organizations immediately after registering for the program. Materials include the online video, technical information, your Manual, checklist, sign-in sheet, CE information/instructions, marketing kit, and additional program materials. Information will be posted to your account as they become available. A link to the materials is also available in your receipt for the program. _____________________________________________________________________________________ LEARNING OBJECTIVES: At the conclusion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Describe typical grief patterns and differentiate typical grief from more complicated forms; 2. List and describe both two typologies of complicated grief ; 3. List and describe six danger signs of complicated grief; 4. Describe the ways that the DSM 5 acknowledges complications of grief; 5. Describe and discuss different approaches to treating complicated forms of grief and note

resources that might be utilized in such treatment. _____________________________________________________________________________________ PROGRAM OUTLINE:

I. The Nature of Complicated Grief A. Understanding Typical and Complicated Grief

1. Typical Grief 2. Signs and Symptoms of Complicated Grief

B. Typologies of Complicated Grief 1. Worden’s Typology 2. Rando’s Typology 3. Webb – Grief as Disabling

C. Developments in the DSM 5 1. Proposals to the DSM 5 2. Complicated Grief in the DSM 5

II. Supporting Grievers Experiencing Complicated Grief A. Screening and Assessing Grief

1. Risk Factors 2. Instruments

B. Therapeutic Approaches 1. Rando – Treatment of Complicated Mourning 2. Worden – Task Oriented Approach 3. Shear – Therapy for Complicated Grief 4. Grief and Trauma

C. Resources III. Conclusion: Next Steps

______________________________________________________________________________________________________ CONTINUING EDUCATION (CE) CREDITS: This program is valid for 2.5 hours of CE credit. The CE cost is $18 per certificate for the first two weeks after the live program; until May 11, 2017. After this date, CE credits are $21 per certificate. CE credits are available until April 26, 2018. A complete list of board approvals for this webinar program is posted to HFA’s website at www.hospicefoundation.org.

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Registered organizations will be provided web access to print an official certificate of attendance* for this course. *Note: the Certificate of Attendance is not accepted by professional boards. _____________________________________________________________________________________ COURSE COMPLETION REQUIREMENTS: Participants must attend the entire 2.5 hour program (2 hour video presentation plus 30-minute post-program discussion). Partial credit is not awarded. Participants must also complete the entire CE process online, before the CE deadline of April 26, 2018. (In order to go online, attendees will need to enter in a Course Code, which is only provided at the end of the program). The online CE process includes a required evaluation form and exam. The exam must be completed at 80% or above (the exam may be re-taken, if necessary). Attendees will be able to choose the board they wish to receive credit from (from Hospice Foundation of America’s list of board approvals) and will then be able to print their CE certificate immediately after completing all CE requirements online (on HFA’s CE site at educate.hospicefoundation.org). _____________________________________________________________________________________ EXPERT PANELISTS: Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, MDiv, is a professor of gerontology at the Graduate School of The College of New Rochelle and senior consultant to Hospice Foundation of America. Dr. Doka serves as editor of HFA’s Living with Grief® book series, its Journeys newsletter, and numerous other books and publications. Dr. Doka has served as a panelist on HFA’s Living with Grief® video programs for 22 years. He is a past president of the Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC) and received the Special Contributions Award in the field of Death Education from the Association for Death Education and Counseling. He is a member and past chair of the International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement. In 2006, Dr. Doka was grandfathered in as a mental health counselor under New York’s first state licensure of counselors. Dr. Doka is an ordained Lutheran minister. Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology, University of Memphis, where he also maintains an active clinical practice. Neimeyer has published 30 books, including Techniques of Grief Therapy: Creative Practices for Counseling the Bereaved and Grief and the Expressive Arts: Practices for Creating Meaning, the latter with Barbara Thompson, and serves as Editor of the journal Death Studies. The author of nearly 500 articles and book chapters and a frequent workshop presenter, he is currently working to advance a more adequate theory of grieving as a meaning-making process. Neimeyer served as President of the Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC) and Chair of the International Work Group for Death, Dying, & Bereavement. In recognition of his scholarly contributions, he has been granted the Eminent Faculty Award by the University of Memphis, made a Fellow of the Clinical Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association, and given Lifetime Achievement Awards by both the Association for Death Education and Counseling and the International Network on Personal Meaning. Therese A. Rando, PhD, BCETS, BCBT, is a clinical psychologist in Warwick, Rhode Island. She is the Clinical Director of The Institute for the Study and Treatment of Loss, which provides mental health services through psychotherapy, training, supervision, and consultation, and specializes in: loss and grief; traumatic stress; and the psychosocial care of persons with chronic, life-threatening, or terminal illness, and their loved ones. Since 1970, she has consulted, conducted research, provided therapy, written, and lectured internationally in areas related to loss, grief, illness, dying, and trauma. She also has provided expert witness testimony in legal proceedings involving illness or bereavement. Current professional foci include treatment of complicated mourning, loss of a child, the interface between posttraumatic stress and grief, anticipatory mourning, specialized intervention techniques in the treatment of traumatic bereavement, and the integration of EMDR into intervention with grief and mourning. Dr. Rando holds a doctoral degree in Psychology from the University of Rhode Island and has received advanced training in psychotherapy and

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in medical consultation-liaison psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University Medical School and University Hospitals of Cleveland. A former consultant to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Hospice Education Program for Nurses, she developed its program for training hospice nurses to cope with loss, grief, and terminal illness. Her current research interests focus on the operations and courses of anticipatory and postdeath mourning; development of a short-term treatment protocol for survivors of traumatic loss; construction of a self-help program for coping with the sudden death of a loved one; and integrating EMDR with group intervention for traumatic loss survivors. REVIEWERS: Pamela Kushner, MA, MD, FAAFP, Clinical Professor Family Medicine, University of California Irvine Lynda Shand, CHPN, CNE, RN, PhD, Associate Professor, The College of New Rochelle _____________________________________________________________________________________ COPYRIGHT NOTICE: HFA’s program and program content is copyrighted. Its use and dissemination is restricted and unauthorized duplication is prohibited. A registered site is licensed to show this program at one, single location. The definition of a site is as follows:

• Any individual accessing the streaming webcast from a computer at home or in the hospice or other office. • Any group accessing the streaming webcast from a computer and projecting it so an entire room of people can access it. • Each computer accessing the streaming webcast

CE Credits for this program may only be obtained through HFA. CE instructions will be provided to the registered contact for your organization prior to the live air date and to attendees at the end of the program. _____________________________________________________________________________________ SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS FOR DISABILITY (ADA): This is based on individual viewing location(s). For program organizers, please post all ADA instructions when advertising the program. _____________________________________________________________________________________ CONFLICT OF INTEREST: Planners (Panelists and Review Committee Members) disclose no conflict of interest relative to this educational activity. _____________________________________________________________________________________ FOR QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, OR ADDRESSING GRIEVANCES Please contact Hospice Foundation of America (HFA) 1707 L Street NW, Suite 220, Washington, DC 20036 educate@hospicefoundation.org / www.hospicefoundation.org 1-800-854-3402 toll-free / (202) 457-5811 phone / (202) 457-5815 fax